Travis Childers on Free Trade

End tax breaks for big corporations that ship jobs overseas

Q: How would you protect Social Security for today's seniors and strengthen it for future generations?

A: We need to end tax breaks for big corporations that ship jobs overseas, protect Medicare and Social Security, give small business owners a tax break, and
pass a balanced budget amendment to force the politicians to cut the wasteful spending. In the Senate, Travis will lead the fight for a Balanced Budget Amendment,
protect the Medicare and Social Security benefits that seniors have earned, and protect Mississippi jobs by ending tax breaks for big corporations that ship jobs overseas.

Unfair trade deals caused current economic problems

We face tough times. We face challenges to small businesses and struggles to create jobs. We need a congressman who understands tough times, has started businesses, and created jobs. We need Travis Childers. Our leaders should have been thinking of the
economic problems we face today when they passed unfair trade deals that sent our jobs overseas, gave billions in subsidies to big oil companies, ignored the home mortgage crisis, and kept spending as the deficit and national debt hit all time highs.

Review free trade agreements biennially for rights violation.

review biennially certain free trade agreements (including Uruguay Round Agreements) between the US and foreign countries to evaluate their economic, environmental, national security, health, safety, and other effects; and

report on them to the Congressional Trade Agreement Review Committee (established by this Act), including analyses of specified aspects of each agreement and certain information about agreement parties, such as whether the country has a democratic form of government, respects certain core labor rights and fundamental human rights, protects intellectual property rights, and enforces environmental laws.

Declares that implementing bills of new trade agreements shall not be subject to expedited consideration or special procedures limiting amendment, unless such agreements include certain standards with respect to:

labor;

human rights;

environment and public safety;

food and product health and safety;

provision of services;

investment;

procurement;

intellectual property;

agriculture;

trade remedies and safeguards;

dispute resolution and enforcement;

technical assistance;

national security; and

taxation.

Requires the President to submit to Congress a plan for the renegotiation of existing trade agreements to bring them into compliance with such standards. Expresses the sense of Congress that certain processes for U.S. trade negotiations should be followed when Congress considers legislation providing special procedures for implementing bills of trade agreements.